Abstract
Abstract In this study thermally transferred (TT) OSL and post-IR elevated temperature IRSL (290 °C) (pIRIR 290 ) dating are applied to deposits covering coastal terraces on the Cap Bon peninsula, Tunisia. Both methods perform well under standard performance tests; dose recovery tests using a modern analogue show that doses relevant to our study can be recovered accurately. Residual signals in the modern analogue for both signals are very small (∼2 Gy). For the younger ( 290 ages) is most likely due to the short lifetime of the TT-OSL trap; we estimate a lifetime of ∼0.7 Ma at 19 °C (mean ambient air temperature of the study area). This is the first time this lifetime has been derived from geological data and it is within the range of previously published laboratory estimates. This result suggests that TT-OSL is not likely to provide a significant extension of the age range beyond that available from other methods. Our preferred pIRIR 290 ages suggest that the geological setting on Cap Bon is not as simple as previously suggested.
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